[TowerTalk] [NCCC] CQ Cancels Jan 20, 2006

[gdaught6@stanford.edu]

Hi Mags,

Can you believe this!!!???

On 18 Jan 2006 at 19:43, Alan Zack wrote:

> For the last year I have been using my 15 Month 2005/2006 CQ Magazine
> Calendar for everyday scheduling as well as keeping an eye on when
> contest weekends are coming up.  I have ordered the 2006/2007 calendar
> but am still using the 2005/2006 version until the new one arrives. 
> The 2005/2006 calendar goes up to March 2006.
> 
> My doctor gave me an appointment for Jan 20 and so I wanted to mark it
> on my calendar as to not forget it.  But there is NO Jan 20th.  The
> calendar goes from Thursday, Jan 19th to Friday, Jan 21, 2006.  Every
> date after that is one day off.
> 
> Is Friday the 20th an unlucky day in some cultures?  Friday the 13th
> is considered unlucky in some cultures but the CQ Calendar does have a
> Friday the 13th in Jan 2006.
> 
> Good thing it isn't a contest weekend.  For those of us where a 48
> hour weekend contest starts on a Friday afternoon or evening we would
> have lost several hours of operation.

So several sources agree there will NOT BE a Friday, January 20th!!!

G

 George T. Daughters
Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Falk Building
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA  94305